Work New Year’s Eve should have fairly standard but deadlines never cease. This time it meant schlepping clothes early in the morning for a photo shoot we were doing for the February issue of our parent company’s HI Luxury magazine in advance of Nordstrom’s March opening.

Don’t want to give away too much before the issue is out, but the clothes are very colorful and feminine and enough to make you want to start purging your closet in the new year.

We were working with a really tight deadline because the clothes needed to be back in Los Angeles and Seattle Jan. 2 and 3, respectively, so clothes basically went from the model’s body into the Fed Ex box. Thankfully, our shoot was done in record time, four-and-a-half hours, so we were able to make the shipper’s 2 p.m. deadline. Whew!

Many thanks to our model Anna Adams, and Aveda Ala Moana’s Cherie Stamm-Roberts and Cynthia Williams for taking time out on New Year’s Eve to help us with our session.